Odette Nilès, figure of the Resistance, died at the age of 100

Odette Nilès, communist and figure of the Resistance, died at the age of 100, on the night of Friday May 26 to Saturday May 27. During World War II, in 1941, she was arrested in Paris as she was ddistributed leaflets against the occupation. With several of her comrades, she was transferred to the Choisel camp, in Chateaubriant, in Loire-Atlantique. There, she met Guy Môquet, who had become her fiancé. His name will forever be associated with the resistant, shot at the age of 17 a few weeks after their meeting.

A “tireless fighter”

In 1944, the young woman ended up escaping from a camp and joined a movement of Rresistance, where she met the one who would become her husband, Maurice Nilès, future mayor of Drancy (Seine-Saint-Denis). Today, Fabien Roussel, the National Secretary of the Communist Party, hailed “a friend and a comrade”. For his part, Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to this “tireless fighter”.